A three judge panel in New York overturned a previous ruling allowing the class action lawsuit to
move forward:
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters who were arrested on New York's Brooklyn Bridge in 2011 at the height of the movement against income inequality and wealth distribution in the United States.
Protesters claimed it was a set-up:
Many of the protesters claimed they were unlawfully arrested and tricked into believing the march, which blocked traffic, had been authorized since police initially blocking the thoroughfare had retreated and allowed the protesters to move forward.
Approximately 700 protesters were arrested on the bridge.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a lawyer for the class action plaintiffs, called the court's decision "extremely abrupt" and said it showed that "the judiciary is unwilling to hold the police accountable" for misconduct.
The bridge protesters were "peaceful and compliant with all directives from the police," she said.